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Lin-Manuel Miranda

Award-Winning Composer, Lyricist & Performer

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Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning composer, lyricist, and
performer, as well as a 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award recipient.
His most recent musical, Hamilton- with book, music and
lyrics by Mr. Miranda, in addition to him playing the title role -
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning composer, lyricist, and
performer, as well as a 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award recipient.
His most recent musical, Hamilton- with book, music and
lyrics by Mr. Miranda, in addition to him playing the title role -
opened on Broadway in 2015. Hamilton was awarded the 2016
Pulitzer Prize in Drama and received a record-breaking 16 Tony
nominations - including 3 nominations for Lin-Manuel for Book,
Score and Leading Actor in a Musical. The Original Broadway Cast
Recording of Hamilton won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best
Musical Theater Album. Both Mr. Miranda and Hamilton won
the 2016 Drama League Awards for Distinguished Performance and
Outstanding Production of a Musical, respectively. For its
Off-Broadway sold-out run at the Public Theater, Hamilton
received a record-breaking 10 Lortel Awards, as well as 3 Outer
Critic Circle Awards, 8 Drama Desk Awards, the New York Drama
Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical, and an OBIE for Best New
American Play. Hamilton is the 2015 recipient of the the
Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.
Material from the show was previewed at the White House during its
first-ever Evening of Poetry & Spoken Word in 2009, in Lincoln
Center Theater’s 2012 American Songbook Series and at New York
Stage and Film’s 2013 Powerhouse Theatre Season at Vassar
College.

Mr. Miranda’s first Broadway musical, In the Heights,
received four 2008 Tony Awards (including Best Orchestrations, Best
Choreography and Best Musical), with Miranda receiving a Tony Award
for Best Score, as well as a nomination for Best Leading Actor in a
Musical. Off-Broadway, In the Heights received 9 Drama
Desk Nominations (including Best Music, Best Lyrics) and an award
for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. In the Heights also won the
Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critic's Circle Award for Best
Musical. Additionally, Mr. Miranda received an Obie Award for
Outstanding Music and Lyrics for the show. In the Heights
also took home a 2009 Grammy Award for its Original Broadway Cast
Album and was recognized as a Finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize
in Drama. In 2016, Miranda received the Oliver Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Music for the Original London production
of In The Heights.

Mr. Miranda is the co-composer (with Tom Kitt), and co-lyricist
(with Amanda Green) of Broadway’s Bring it On: The
Musical (2013 Tony Nom., Best Musical, 2013 Drama Desk Nom.,
Best Lyrics in a Musical). The original Broadway cast recording was
released by Sh-K-Boom Records in 2012. Additionally, he contributed
new songs to the revival of Stephen Schwartz' Working and
worked with Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim on Spanish
translations for the 2009 Broadway Revival of West Side
Story. In 2014, Mr. Miranda received an Emmy Award with Tom
Kitt for their song, “Bigger” from the 67th Annual Tony Awards
telecast.

As an actor, Mr. Miranda received a 2007 Theater World Award for
Outstanding Debut Performance, and the 2007 Clarence Derwent Award
for Most Promising Male Performance courtesy of Actor's Equity
Foundation for In The Heights. Mr. Miranda also received the ASCAP
Foundation's Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award. Lin-Manuel
appeared as Charley Kringas in the 2012 City Center Encores!
production ofMerrily We Roll Along directed by James
Lapine, and can be heard on the 2012 Cast Recording released by PS
Classics. He also appeared in the 2014 City Center Encores!
Off-Center production of tick, tick… BOOM! in the role
of Jonathan.

In May of 2009, Mr. Miranda received the degree of Doctor of
Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Yeshiva University, the
youngest recipient of such an honor in the University’s 123-year
history. He is a National Arts Club Medal of Honor recipient. Mr.
Miranda serves as a Council Member of The Dramatists Guild, board
member of Young Playwrights Inc. and was appointed by Mayor Bill de
Blasio to New York City’s Theater Subdistrict Council in
2015.

Mr. Miranda is a co-founder and member of Freestyle Love
Supreme, a popular hip-hop improv group that performs regularly in
New York City. The group has toured the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
as well as the Aspen, Melbourne and Montreal Comedy Festivals. The
group’s eponymous television series premiered on Pivot TV in
2014.

Mr. Miranda has lent his voice to the audiobook recordings
ofThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz and
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Saen. He provided the voice of Zak in Coca
Cola’s 2013 Polar Bears animated short film. TV/Film
credits include The Electric Company, Sesame Street, The
Sopranos, House, Modern Family, Do No Harm, Smash, How I Met Your
Mother, The Sex and the City Movie, The Odd Life of Timothy
Green and 200 Cartas. He received his B.A. from
Wesleyan University in 2002. He lives in NYC with his wife, son and
dog.

"Hamilton" - 2016 GRAMMY Winner Best Musical Theater Album

Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks "Hamilton," New York And His Influences

Wheel of Freestyle with Lin-Manuel Miranda (from "Hamilton")

In April, 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda, a writer, composer, and
performer, received a call from the White House. The new President
and the First Lady were planning to host an evening of live
performances centered on “the American experience,” and Miranda
was invited… Read more

“If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse
oversharer than me,” said the composer-performer Lin-Manuel
Miranda recently over lunch at Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan.
Mr. Miranda, who won a Tony for the score of “In the Heights,”
was… Read more

Award winning composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose musical
productions include In the Heights, talks to Charlie Rose
about his hit: a hip-hop musical about the unlikeliest of the
founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. Miranda calls the play, "the
story of America then, told by… Read more

Miranda is equally conversant with the oeuvres of Stephen Sondheim
and Big Pun, of Alan Menken and Biggie, of XTC and Rubén Blades
— and these days, he's tight enough with Sondheim himself to send
the 85-year-old composer rap songs he thinks… Read more

Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary stage musical "Hamilton" has won
a Grammy, a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation and now
another honor — one of the largest prizes given for dramatic
writing.… Read more

Composer and playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda has accepted one of the
largest prizes given for the stage by celebrating immigrants,
saying that his creation of the Broadway smash "Hamilton" was
sparked by learning about Alexander Hamilton's overseas roots.… Read more

Lin-Manuel Miranda made Hamilton the most influential Broadway
musical in ages and became a hero for his optimistic notion of a
rich, diverse America. And he did it by following his gut, his
dreams, and his vision—and never forgetting where he came… Read more

On Monday, which would have been the 84th birthday of Edward M.
Kennedy, Columbia University and Jean Kennedy Smith said that
“Hamilton” was the winner of a rich prize named in honor of the
senator, who died in 2009.… Read more